On 4 Jan 2007 at 15:34, Andrew Stiller wrote: > So how do I go about converting a 40-page Finale file into TIFFs? And > what's the difference betw. a "flat TIFF" and a round one? And having > made my 40 TIFFs, how do I get them into a single, 40-p. PDF? NB: I > have a shareware utility called Print2Pict that also creates files in > other graphic formats--but I do not have Adobe Acrobat, only the > reader. I had hoped to use Finale's save-as-PDF function to avoid all > these kinds of troubles, but I guess that's not in the cards.
I don't know about Acrobat, but I use the PC-only PDF995 tools (free in sponsored version) to print to PDF. Then I can use the PDF tools to output the PDF to TIFF files (choosing which type of TIFF and the output resolution). Then I can use the same PDF utilities to assemble the TIFFs into a PDF. Here's an example of one I did by scanning photocopies: http://wurlitzerbruck.com/MUS/AbelOpusV.pdf Those TIFFs are only as good as the photocopies I was working from, but it shows how I assembled a PDF from photocopies scanned in as TIFFs. I think this is highly unprofessional on Lulu's part, though, to require that the PDFs be TIFF-based. It means that you need to know their output resolution in order to produce your TIFFs, and that the resulting PDF is going to be perfect at only one output resolution. I, too, thought that PDFs should rid you of any font issues, but we've all seen reports on this list of Finale-produced PDFs that have missing font characters. Maybe it's a Mac/Windows thing (even though it oughtn't be)? In any event, I would expect the Acrobat tools would allow you to do all these things. Perhaps there's also a free utility like PDF995 that you can use on the Mac (it's a wrapper around Ghostscript, so the results are first-rate, even though free or very inexpensive for the non-sponsored version). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
